Mitch's Blog

63/31/same

I’m working on a big report due today. I am well into the green zone.

“I hope my email finds you well.”
How your email finds me:

Some pig: Master butcher Török Sándor with two of his sons, and prize 420 kilogram Mangalica pig. Törökszentmiklós, Hungary, 1922

💯this

The Village Voice - Apr 19, 1976

Sign in a window, 1940s.

via sjvn, who says, “This seems more apt than usual.” Thanks!

via. Thanks!

Cover by John Berkey. When I was a kid it bothered me that the illustration looked nothing like Asimov’s robots.

The man under Cousin Itt’s costume

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The end of the Great Wall of China

Title page from Philip José Farmer ‘Strange Compulsion’ from Science Fiction Plus October 1953. Art by Virgil Finley

From the comments: “It’s like he’s crying because they tried something new and it got weird”

Thanks, Tom!

“From around 1970, [a] young person from the Columbus, Georgia, news photo archive. A bangs-dimples-smile trifecta! 4x5 inch acetate negative."

It Was the Day of the Robot by Frank Belknap Long

Coney Island, 1961, Diane Arbus

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Nude Interracial Love Dance. via

mitchellaneous.net, aka Mitch’s Other Blog, is where I’m posting memes, vintage ads and photos, and other found media. I don’t imagine many people will bookmark mitchellaneous.net and return to it. It exists primarily as a publishing platform to share posts to a newsletter and several social media services, powered by Micro.blog, the great service that hosts both this blog and that one.

I’m thinking of changing the domain of this blog as well, to mitchipedia.org. It’s now mitchw.blog, of course, but I soured on that domain a while ago. One reason is because “MitchW” isn’t one of the names I use in life. I use “Mitch” or “Mitch Wagner.” People who knew me when I was a child call me “Mitchell.”

Also, I love blogging but I don’t like the word “blog.”

On the other hand, is “mitchipedia” too cute?

I own mitchwagner.com, and formerly blogged there, but I decided a few years ago to put a slight distance between my professional identity, which is tied to that name (my real name) and the stuff I post here. Now mitchwagner.com is just a placeholder site.

Another option would be to give this blog a domain tied to a catchy name, like Daring Fireball or Scripting News or Pluralistic. But all the names I could think of seemed to be either too bombastic or too cute. And so many of the good domains are taken now.